Year 6

Year 6 have had another amazing week and have settled back into normal lessons quickly. In English, we have looked more at our class book which is a graphic novel called ‘The Arrival’. We have had to use our inference skills to pick out clues from the pictures to understand the story. We also really enjoyed doing some role play of one picture from the book.

In maths, we have started learning about fractions with a focus on equivalent fractions and converting between improper and mixed numbers. Next week we will move onto calculating with fractions including addition and subtraction.

In RE this week, we read the story of Angulimala and learned about how Buddha was able to help him to feel peaceful and content. We created some lovely story boards to summarise the story which you can see in the pictures.

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend,

Miss Donaghy 😊

Year 6 have been AMAZING this week! Every single one them has tried their best in the test papers that we have done and they should all be very proud of themselves. They have come in every day with a positive mindset and taken this fully in their stride! 

As well as doing our SATs papers this week, we have also started our new topic in History focusing on World War 2. We learned about the Blitz this week including why it happened and the impact it had on the people of Britain. We had lots of questions about it so are looking forward to finding out more in coming lessons.  

In science, we are learning about classification and we found out about Linnaeus’ system this week. There were lots of groups to remember so we came up with some silly mnemonics to help us to remember them – ask your child if they can remember theirs! 

I hope everyone has a lovely relaxing weekend after a very busy week! 

Miss Donaghy 😊 

We have had an incredible last week of term in year 6 this week! In English, we have written our own poems based on our goals and ambitions. Some of us enjoyed performing them to the class as well. Ask your child to read theirs to you as they are all uploaded onto Showbie. 

This week we have also done lots of art lessons where we have worked on our oil pastel and sketching skills. We have also looked at how we can express ourselves through our artwork using different colours to show different emotions and ambitions. Our final art piece was a self-portrait sketch in the style of Da Vinci which we were really proud of. 

I hope you all have a lovely relaxing half term! There is a competition on Sumdog for the children to participate in while they are at home as well. 

We have had a fantastic week of learning in Year 6 this week! In English, we have been thinking about our ambitions for the future and how we might achieve these goals. We will use these ideas in the poems that we write next week. 

In Maths, we have been focusing on formal written methods for multiplication and division. We have shown lots of resilience as we have practised these methods and we have shown great progress over the week. Keep practising those times tables at home as well! There will another task set on Sumdog to complete as homework based on multiplication and division. 

In Geography this week, we continued our research into Africa but now focusing on South Africa. We looked at some of the human and physical features of the country and then compared it to the UK. We then created presentations or posters to explain these comparisons. In RE this year we are focusing on Buddhism. In our lesson this week we recapped everything we have learned so far by completing a quiz. Ask us what we can remember! 

This week in English we have done our independent write from Jeff’s point of view. They were amazing and we worked really hard on engaging our reader! Next week, we are going to be looking at writing some poetry. 

In Maths, we have focused on properties of number including factors, multiples and square numbers. We learned lots of new vocabulary and had some interesting discussions about number. There is a task on Sumdog for us to do so that we can keep practising at home. We will be moving onto division next week so keep practising times tables at home. 

In Geography this week, we researched some key human and physical features of Africa. We found out about some different capital cities – ask us which is the only country in Africa to have 3 capital cities! You can some pictures of the posters we created to display the key information we found out. In computing, we have started doing some coding including how to create a Sprite and make it move around on the screen. Ask us to show you what we created on our iPads! 

This week in English we finished writing our narrative from Bradley’s point of view. We worked hard to really show how our character was feeling and learned two different ways we can use colons in our writing. You can see a photo of our class write which includes sentences from lots of our writing. Next week we will be doing an independent write from a different character’s perspective. Why not ask us to tell you our plan! 

In Maths, we have continued to focus on addition and subtraction including using bar models to help us to solve gap fill problems. We will be moving onto multiplication and division soon so keep practising times tables at home. 

In History this week, we read some sources about migration from different periods of time. We then used hot seating to ask the people who wrote these sources some questions and imagine what their answers would be. I was very impressed with some of the drama skills in the class!